national
symphony
orchestra
gianandrea noseda, music director
Assistant Pi
solo:
Mozart Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
1 Bassoon Excerpts:
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven Concerto for Violin
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3
Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Brahms Symphony No. 3
Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Symphony No. 41
Ravel Bolero
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9
Stravinsky Pulcinella
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
Verdi Requiem
cipal Bassoon Audition - March 2018
1 movement: exposition/development
2" movement: exposition
i bars 8-24
I bars 20-30
Il: bars 134-158
Beginning ~ bar 14, bars 330-360
IV: bar 15 ~[f) bars 184-190, bars 300-302
Ws bar 241 -
WV: bar 116 ~
I: bars 23-72 (1" ending), fA - bar 119
Wl: bars 110-142
IV: beginning ~[4
Bars 101-171
I: bars 62-71, bars 105-123
IV: bars 83.157
2atterBl-B
B-|
ti4 after fr
us bar 5-9 |
Bar 10 of mvt. IV = bar
Toccata: 1 before 3)
Gavotte, Variation 2a: complete
(no repeats, 2 ending)
Beginning -2 before fal 4 after i
I: E~bar 114
I: bar 274~end
i: bars 1827, f= bar 72
|: beginning ~ bar 12
Dies Irae: bars 271-312
4" and 2" parts combined)
of mvt. V
Sight reading and/or ensemble playing may be required in the final round only. NSO tunes to
A-442, The audition committee reserves the right to immediately dismiss any candidate not meeting the
highest artistic standards.
‘The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
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Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
I: bars 8-24
Allegretto scherzando
sretoscherzan oD -
Reprinted with kind permission from Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., for the
National Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition